United States v. Thomas Russell Tackett

How courts have described this case

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• “[O]fficers must conduct a permissible inventory search in good faith, not as a pretext for criminal investigation.”
• “Whether a police department maintains a written policy is not determinative, where testimony establishes the existence and contours of the policy.”
• standard criteria requirement for impoundment need not be detailed or contained in a written policy
• “Whether a police department maintains a written policy is not determinative, where testimony establishes the existence and contours of the bright-line test and affirming the legitimate expectation of privacy must be reasonable in light of all the surrounding circumstances
• accepting officers’ testimony as proof of inventory policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).